3dprinting

I’ve made a large number of custom prints, and all of them were created using TinkerCad. It’s an amazing toolkit, stupid easy to use but versatile. That is … until something needs a tiny adjustment somewhere. That’s when I feel it would’ve been neat to use parametric CAD instead....

It’s 1.75mm filament going into 2mm layers. lol, wtf. Still looks great, though.

I think 1kg spools are too much, I want to experiment with ALL THE COLORS… But few manufacturers offer 250g, and they are sometimes twice the cost by weight. https://feddit.it/pictrs/image/2658590c-535c-4523-9dd2-25663ba7bc23.webp

cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/16042365...

OK guys, I finally found what the issue is, or at least kind of where it’s coming from....

In keeping with my usual tradition of harping on about the dumb shit I design and slap up on Printables:...

I finally got a filament drying box and I’m using it prior to and during prints. It seems to be helping. I’m a bit of a color queen, so I keep a pretty big backlog of different filaments. I’ve been storing them in vacuum bags but the vacuum bags often seem to lose some of their vacuum after a few months; the whole process...

I know it’s not a new problem, but I don’t know what I can or should do…...

Hey, my printer recently stopped working saying the filament ran out even though it was still in for use. I checked the sensor and sure enough it was worn down, so I replaced it. But now I’m getting the same message even though I just replaced the sensor and all the wires are connected back to the sensor and printer. If it...

I’ve had access to a roommate’s 3D printer, but they’ll be moving away soon :(...

After half a dozen iterations, this was the first reasonably working, acceptable feeling, and good-sounding ratchet mechanism....

Does anyone have any tips or tools to help with managing slicer profiles using inheritance? I primarily use SuperSlicer but have been dabbling with Orca Slicer recently....

First I’d like to say thanks to everyone for looking at these posts and trying to help, and sorry to anyone who may be annoyed. Trust me, I’m not happy either....

Anyone have any idea what might cause this sort of issue on PLA? I run into it frequently, but pretty much only when all of the following points are true:...

Hi all. This is an update to this post. I don’t know what else the community can do to help, but I figured I’d throw some more content up there and give something bored people to look at....

**EDIT: In the interest of full disclosure, I had a filament break about 1/3 through, but that’s okay because the partial PLA print was nowhere near strong enough along the layer lines. There are plenty of decent 3D printed keyboards out there that just need some assembly and post-processing, so if this one doesn’t work...

[SOLVED] cause: not enough cooling for overhangs...

Hi everyone, I’m having constant clogging issues with my printer that sprung up out of nowhere. I’m running out of things to test....

I’m having a bit of a hard time with this, but I also acknowledge this is still relatively niche still....

Print failed because the layer adhesion is shit on my printer.

Source twitter.com/stlDenise3D/…/1780245895595921589

The printer is a Voron 2.4, the extruder is a StealthBurner, and the hot end itself is a Rapido MK1. I’m printing Polymaker ASA on a spool that hasn’t given me any grief thus far (I last printed with it a few days ago) and am slicing with Orca Slicer....